Collaboration is one of those words of the moment – a bit like “research”. Teachers are told therein lies the key to a self-improving, highly skilled profession, but anyone who understands the daily juggle of planning, marking, data-tracking – let alone actually teaching – will know that it is something easier said than done.
But while doing things differently is never easy, I would call on the teaching profession to take action to ensure that collaboration does not become another top-down agenda, resented and discarded as a box-ticking exercise.
Last term, SSAT visited The Baverstock Academy on the back of hearing reports of something quite special happening there as a result of in-school collaboration.
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